TVBEurope presents selected features examining the business of broadcast and post in Europe, including the changing business models that drive it, the people that shape it, and the products that will mould its future. See the Digital Editions for more.

Arri has delivered production prototypes of its modular Alexa M camera to the Cameron-Pace Group. The compact M was developed with CPG for use in a new smaller 3D rig that minimises cabling and offers an optimised, streamlined 3D system, writes David Fox.

With sites offering pirated digital content recording 53 billion hits per year, operators must monetise existing and new revenue streams by offering new exciting content incentives. But how should they do this, asks Doug Lowther, EVP Digital TV, Irdeto.

While surround sound is now standard in home receivers the industry is casting its net toward new sonic systems. Adrian Pennington reports.

Philip Stevens takes a look inside the latest HD OB on the road in the Czech Republic, which has joined the fleet of ACE-Prague.

Spanish TV channel Antena 3 has updated its newsroom with a brand new studio featuring a 11 x 2.5m video wall. Videoreport and Christie worked with Antena 3’s engineering department on a new set for the Antena 3 Noticias news programme.

In December 2009, ITV Studios announced a £5 million refurbishment of its Kirkstall Road studios. Central to the project was a full upgrade of the Emmerdale production centre, including the introduction of high-definition facilities, writes Philip Stevens.

RAI Television is to install Hitachi HD cameras in a three-year upgrade of its digital studios and facilities throughout Italy. By the end of the project, RAI will have taken delivery of more than 150 Hitachi SK-HD1000 studio, EFP and ENG cameras.

Melanie Dayasena-Lowe takes a close look around the new home of post production company Unit and finds out how White Mark steered the project from tender and design through to completion.

Facilities offering high definition production are increasing with some pace right across Europe. Philip Stevens investigates the latest developments in Croatia, following the completion of a DVB-T MPEG-4 experimental phase, which began in 2007.

With the switchover from analogue to digital transmission, the EU and national regulators are keen to sell off spectrum to mobile operators. However, this Digital Dividend will partly be paid for by the loss of frequencies for wireless microphone and talkback systems needed for outside broadcasts and other production use. David Fox talked to some of the OB companies affected.

Mike Clark finds out how Italian company Telerecord delivered a high definition OB van for Qatari broadcaster Al Kass Sport Channel and how the truck boasts special features to be able to cope in Arabian climates and conditions.

A new camera, post production and display system that offers the highest of High Dynamic Range recording, similar to the human eye, has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of Warwick (UK), writes David Fox.

David Fox learns how Studio 9 Films used Panasonic’s AG-AF101 large-sensor camera to capture vivid documentary imagery set in Democratic Republic of Congo. The production - for an Al Jazeera strand - is thought to be the first to use this particular camera for broadcast work.

European broadcast wireless audio users will have to swap channels, and probably buy new equipment, as governments comply with an EU Directive on what to do with broadcast spectrum following the analogue switch off. David Fox reports.

The centrepiece of Sony’s offering at NAB will be its new SRMemory, an expansion of its SR format and a move beyond HD, writes David Fox. The HDCAM-SR format has been Sony’s high-end tape system, but it will soon be moving mainstream, for broadcast multicamera recording and as an option on the PMWF3 Super35mm camcorder.